Strategic Plan (SP) Development for

Transportation for the Nation(TFTN)

Slide 2• Identify and engage the entire stakeholder

community– All levels of government– Private Sector– Citizens (e.g. OpenStreetMap community)

• Define requirements, challenges and opportunities

• Document progress already made, good ideas & challenge current assumptions

• Explore implementation issues

• Evaluate funding requirements and sources

Strategic Planning Effort

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BackgroundInfluenced by several different efforts:

• NSGIC’s For the Nation (FTN) initiatives that called for the development of TFTN and Imagery For the Nation (IFTN)

• OMB Circular A-16 identifies the US-DOT as the “lead agency” for the “transportation theme” of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI).

• US-DOT all roads data requirements such as accident reporting for enhanced safety, highway performance monitoring and bridge inventory.

• Aligned with several initiatives such the emerging federal Geospatial Platform concept. - one element of the “geospatial portfolio”

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US DOT is a full partner in TFTN

– Transportation Theme Lead for the NSDI

– Produce and Maintain the National Transportation Atlas Databases (NTAD)

– FHWA HPMS Program collecting data from State DOTs

– Funding the Strategic Planning Effort

TFTN and US DOT

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Outreach Activities

• USGS/Census Bureau sponsored meeting of federal stakeholders 10/09

• NSGIC Annual Conference 10/09

• TRB Presentation 01/10

• ESRI Federal User Conference 02/10

• TFTN Site: http://www.transportationresearch.gov/TFTN/default.aspx

• Press Releases

• 2010 GIS-T Symposium

• Steering Committee Formation

• Stakeholders Interviews

What Has Been Done?

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• Perform outreach activities: interviews, workshops, meetings, surveys, case studies, etc.

• Identification of what’s working, what’s needed – current practices, requirements, strategies, standards, documentation

• Identification of institutional constraints, capacity, operational authority, motivation, benefits, etc.

• Potential ways of implementations

• Potential sources of funding

The Road Ahead

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Date Conference Location

April 12-14 2010

GIS-T Symposium Charleston, WV

July 13 2010 ESRI User Conference

San Diego, CA

Sept. 29 2010 URISA GIS Pro Orlando, FLSept.12-15 2010

2010 NSGIC Annual

Minneapolis, MN

Meeting Workshops

What is the purpose of TFTN?Is it to…

• Improve economic efficiency by minimizing duplicate spending on collecting and maintaining the same road geometry and attributes across multiple levels of government and the private sector?

• Identify the business processes and inter-governmental data flows that support the repeatable roll-up of local roads to the national level (i.e. a supply chain)?

• Establish a consensus choice for the most complete, consistent, maintained, and public version of fully routable street centerlines for the nation?

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TFTN Concept“Creation and maintenance of high-quality, nationwide transportation data that is in the public domain”

• An initial focus on street centerlines, but eventually multi-modal

• Nationwide data spanning all states and territories

• All roads, not just Federally funded roads

• Achieved via coordinated efforts from multiple levels of govt.

• Provides a common geometric baseline• Road naming• Persistent segment ID numbering• Advanced functionality is built on top of baseline

• Data is in the public domain and readily shareable

TFTN STRATEGIC PLANNING FINDINGS TO DATE

Baseline Geometry with “Special Sauce”“Special sauce” can be content and/or capabilities

• The specifics of what’s included in “baseline geometry” requires further definition– We need ideas and input from stakeholders on what’s feasible

• Initial, minimal components might be:– Road naming– Basic attributes (e.g. functional classification)– Persistent segment ID numbering

• Additional potential components:– Address ranges/geocoding (could be a minimal component?)– Advanced attributes (e.g. width, lanes)– Full routability (e.g. speeds, turn restrictions, etc.)– Enhanced cartographic display (e.g. annotation, symbolization, etc.)– Linear referencing systems (LRS)– Integration with photo/imagery catalogs

State-level Best Practices for Creating Statewide Road Inventories

• Activate government partners at County and Local level– Provide funding and technical support– State collects and aggregates into statewide data– Examples of this approach include: AR and OH

• Public-Private partnership with commercial mapping firms– State contracts with private sector for creation and

maintenance of statewide inventories– State obtains licensed data and a mechanism for posting

update requests– Examples of this approach include: NY and MA

Potential Benefits of TFTNDifferent benefits to different groups of stakeholders

• Core business benefits to the US-DOT– To the HPMS program: see HPMS in the context of complete transportation– To Highway Safety for nationwide accident mapping– To Bridge inventory efforts

• Benefits to “sister” federal agencies– Reduces costs from redundant nationwide data sets– Provides public domain data for sharing with partners– Potential collaboration and synergy with other significant mapping

programs at USGS and US Census

Potential Benefits of TFTNDifferent benefits to different groups of stakeholders

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• Benefits to State and Local Govt. – Potentially opens up FHWA resources for statewide road inventories– Streamlined requests for data– Provides public domain data

• Facilitates sharing with partners• Better data – particularly for rural areas – for GPS-based navigation

– Easier cross border /multi-jurisdiction coordination and collaboration

• Benefits to the General Public– Consistent data across agencies and programs to support citizen services– Publically accessible data for citizen and commercial innovation